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Monday, July 8, 2013

Sable Grey has been writing
sensual and erotic romance since 2004 and is multi-published in both print and
electronic formats. Also a publisher and
a cover artist, Sable spends what little spare time she has in the small town
of Clinton, Mississippi with a houseful of furry children. When she’s not writing, she enjoys watching
movies, reading, playing video games, and singing karaoke poorly.

Welcome, Sable.

How many books have you written and what is your best seller?

I’ve currently thirty four titles available in romance,
erotic romance, erotica, and fantasy fiction.
I’ve currently three titles available in print and the rest are
available in digital formats. I’m published
with Liquid Silver Books, Cobblestone Press, Breathless Press, Total EBound
Books, and Ellora’s Cave. I also have 7
titles that I’ve self published. Almost all
of my books can be found on Amazon. I’ve
books written under the names Sable Grey, Amon Bieste, and AJ Searle.

My most recent erotica title is Zombie Lust and is available
at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B90VRMA
for 99 cents. It’s a short erotica about
a zombie, Lucas, who only eats bad people and tries to live a regular life the
rest of the time. Yes, I have a twisted sense of humor and yes, I love zombie
movies!

My most recent romance novel is Temptation & Honor, the
first in a historical family saga about the Redleigh family. Thomas
Redleigh is a soldier returned to his family's home after his father dies and
he receives word that his mother is ill. Until his return, Meredith Claiborne
had been caring for Thomas' mother and keeping the household running in his
absence. But a twisted ankle forces her to release some of her responsibility
and accept Thomas' assistance. The time they spend together leads to a scandalous
affair that, if discovered, could ruin the names of both of their families.
Their secret is kept until the rumors circulated by a jealous man lands Thomas
as a suspect of murder.

Oh I guess there is a bit of me in each of my
characters. It’s difficult not to put a
little of myself into the characters.
The one who is most like me is Anne from the chapter by chapter book I’m
writing on my website called Heart of the Storm. Members of my site can read the first eleven
chapters right now. This summer I will
begin writing a chapter a week to finish the book.

Do your characters take on a life of their own? If so, which
is your favorite?

Yes, sometimes they do.
My favorite character of all of my books is Neville Crashaw, hands
down. He’s a secondary character in my
Redleigh series but a very important one in several of the books. While only one of the Redleigh books is
available I’ve written four and I truly love Neville. Readers get to meet him in the first of the
Redleigh books and if they don’t fall in love with him after reading Temptation
& Honor, they most definitely will when the second installment, The Vicar’s
Wife, is published.

He’s a self made wealthy gentleman and lifelong bachelor
with connections to very powerful people.
He has homes in Scotland, France, and in the small town where the
Redleigh family lives. He enjoys mayhem
and is constantly stirring the pot so to speak when it comes to scandal. At times he comes across as a snob but
beneath that he has a very honorable and tender heart.

What do you think is the greatest lesson you’ve learned
about writing so far? What advice can you give new writers?

My entire career in the industry has been and continues to
be a great lesson but I have six bits of advice for new writers:

Read your contracts! It sounds silly, I know. I’ve always read my contracts but didn’t
realize until I also became a publisher that many authors don’t. They are so excited to be published that
they just sign their name and send the contract back so they can get on
with opening that bottle of champagne.
But it’s important to read contracts so you know exactly what kind
of partnership you are entering into, for how long, and the details of
ending that partnership if you need to in the future.

Listen to your
editors! I’ve read in many writing
group sites that editors are trying to change voice and style during
editing. In 9 years and 34 books,
I’ve never had an editor do such a thing.
If you do your homework and submit your work to publishers with
good reputations, you will not run into an issue of an editor doing
anything but helping you become a better author. On a side note, style guides are not the
same for every publisher either.
Each publisher has their own style guide. So while one editor might allow you to
head hop a little, another may not.

Keep writing! Don’t wait around to see how one book is
going to sell or stress over what reviewers are saying about your
book. Move on to the next project. That’s how you will build up a following
for your name – by getting another title out there.

Ignore asshats! They are out here in hordes in the
publishing industry. They bash
your books on their blogs. They
tear you apart in reviews on Amazon.
No one is safe. Do not
respond to them. I repeat, do not
respond. It’s what they want
because it only fuels the nastiness.

Don’t be the asshat that
people ignore. Focus on your career
as an author and don’t worry about what someone else is writing. Once you start bashing other authors and
books, that’s all anybody is reading.
You drive attention away from your own work. And authors are readers too so you lose
those sales as well.

Promote, promote,
promote! Once you are published,
you will need a website. But that’s
not enough. Get yourself into all
the social media sites. Build
yourself an author page at Amazon’s author central, Shelfari, Google plus,
etc. The more places your name pops
up the more readers you get and the more people begin to recognize that
name. This industry is HUGE and
it’s easy to get lost if you don’t stay on top of your promotion and
marketing.

Great advice, Sable.

Can you tell us your future writing goals/projects?

LOL I have so many
planned that it’s ridiculous. I think up
more stories than I’ll ever have time to write.
But I do have some in the works to be published soon. The second installment to the Redleigh Books
is The Vicar’s Wife. It’s the story
about Liam Redleigh, younger brother to Thomas of Temptation & Honor. I also want to write a second book for
Breathless Press to follow my best seller, Passion of the Wolf (http://www.amazon.com/Passion-of-the-Wolf-ebook/dp/B003IWYDIW).
And I need to get the next installment of Charlotte’s Brides written for
Cobblestone Press.

About Me

I wrote the Logan Hunter Mystery series: Genesis Beach, Just North of Luck, Hell Swamp, Sin Creek and Sticking Point. Slightly Cracked is my first women's fiction and I also authored unique cookbook, Killer Recipes. I'm currently working on an historical fiction, titled Sprig of Broom. My Web site is www.susanwhitfieldonline.com
KILLER RECIPES, features recipes from mystery writers across the country. Profits for this book are donated to cancer research.
Sites I follow:
www.coldcoffeepress.com
www.coldcoffeecafe.com
www.booktown.ning.com
http://www.pmterrell.blogspot.com
http://murderby4.blogspot.com
http://www.mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com
www.bloodredpencil.blogspot.com
www.womenofmystery.net
www.sistersincrime.org
http://suspensebyanne.blogspot.com
http://murdersousmusings.blogspot.com